The Vicariate for Catholic social services is the social outreach agency of the Archdiocese of Wellington. Our work includes counselling and social work, prison and hospital chaplaincy, support for refugee resettlement and community advocacy. All are welcome and our services are available to people of all backgrounds and beliefs.

Will you help us to support those in real need?

“Being there for those in difficulty, for refugees and migrants, the poor and the lonely and for the victims and perpetrators of violence and abuse, is a non-negotiable requirement if we are to be faithful to our vocation to be at the service of the world.”

Archbishop John Dew – Synod, 2006

“The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need; those who have nothing apart from their poverty”.